John Waters Movies

  • 2015
    Kiddie Flamingos

    Kiddie Flamingos

    Kiddie Flamingos

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    Child actors perform a 'kid-friendly' table read version of John Water's notorious 1972 X-rated cult classic film, Pink Flamingos.

    Kiddie Flamingos
  • 1970
    The Brandon Novak Story

    The Brandon Novak Story

    The Brandon Novak Story

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    Follows the life of skateboarder and MTV star Brandon Novak.

    The Brandon Novak Story
  • 1970
    Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

    Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

    Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

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    Marsha Sprinkle is a suitcase thief, scammer and mistress of disguise. Everybody hates her and even her own family wants her dead.

    Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance
  • 1968
    Eat Your Makeup

    Eat Your Makeup

    Eat Your Makeup

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    John Waters' first sixteen-millimetre film, about a deranged nanny who kidnaps young girls and forces them to 'model themselves to death' in front of...

    Eat Your Makeup
  • 2019
    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’

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    Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester." Produced for The Criterion Collecton.

    Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
  • 2008
    Coven of the Heathenites

    Coven of the Heathenites

    Coven of the Heathenites

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    A summer sojourn is fleshed out for maximum solar exposure in this video travelogue of sun, sea and epidermal exhibitionism. The states of mind and...

    Coven of the Heathenites
  • 1964
    Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

    Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

    Hag in a Black Leather Jacket

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    The lurid wedding of a black man and white girl, with a Ku Klux Klansman performing the wedding ceremony. John Waters' first film, made on 8mm, given...

    Hag in a Black Leather Jacket
  • 2010
    Putty Hill

    Putty Hill

    Putty Hill

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    Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about...

    Putty Hill
  • 2021
    My Life with the Waters

    My Life with the Waters

    My Life with the Waters

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    Vito Zagarrio, who in 1985 directed the famous documentary "Divine Waters", after 40 years goes again through it's relationship with John Waters and...

    My Life with the Waters
  • 1968
    Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head

    Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head

    Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head

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    An incomplete project, Dorothy the Kansas City Pothead stars John Waters' long-time casting agent Pat Moran in the role of Dorothy.

    Dorothy, the Kansas City Pot Head
  • 1967
    Roman Candles

    Roman Candles

    Roman Candles

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    Shot on 8mm, and featuring the introduction of Divine, John Waters' sophomore film is a plotless collage of random incidents involving sex, drugs,...

    Roman Candles
  • 1985
    Divine Waters

    Divine Waters

    Divine Waters

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    This documentary focuses on the careers of influential partners in trash film, John Waters and Divine. The film includes interviews with Waters'...

    Divine Waters
  • 2006
    I, of the Cyclops

    I, of the Cyclops

    I, of the Cyclops

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    A poem is read and emotions are unleashed. A book is signed and pets pampered as this tour of talented talkers weaves its way through Provincetown...

    I, of the Cyclops
  • 2004
    Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low

    Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low

    Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low

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    Shot over the course of two years, Closer Than That finds the members of Duluth "slo-core" band Low (Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker, and Zak Sally) going...

    Closer Than That: A Documentary on Low
  • 1993
    The Big Wet

    The Big Wet

    The Big Wet

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    Powerful electric storms rip through an arid landscape. Salt water crocodiles occupy territories where tourists camped just weeks earlier. Cyclones...

    The Big Wet
  • 2007
    Jessica the Hippo

    Jessica the Hippo

    Jessica the Hippo

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    A tv documentary about a domestic hippo named Jessica and her love for sweet potatoes. Narrated by filmmaker John Waters.

    Jessica the Hippo
  • 2006
    Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

    Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

    Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes

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    A featurette about Busby Berkeley.

    Busby Berkeley's Kaleidoscopic Eyes
  • 2026
    Gays Against Guns

    Gays Against Guns

    Gays Against Guns

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    Gays Against Guns takes us to the frontlines of the American gun violence epidemic, seen through the eyes of an Irish immigrant, who left Ireland...

    Gays Against Guns
  • 2016
    Whatever Happened to Gelitin

    Whatever Happened to Gelitin

    Whatever Happened to Gelitin

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    Art dealer Salvatore Viviano and director Angela Christlieb embark on a search for the lost artist collective Gelitin, which since the 1990s has...

    Whatever Happened to Gelitin
  • 2018
    Sickies Making Films

    Sickies Making Films

    Sickies Making Films

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    A love letter to film history, Sickies Making Films looks at our urge to censor movies and asks, Why? By focusing on the Maryland Board of Censors,...

    Sickies Making Films